Child health · UKMLA & AKT
Chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis
A free high-yield preview for the UKMLA Applied Knowledge Test, covering how to recognise this condition. The full SA Note notes add investigations, management and complications, with practice questions on this topic.
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- Chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis (CMC) is persistent/recurrent Candida infection of skin, nails, and mucosae due to a defective Th17/IL-17 axis - a sentinel for underlying immunological or endocrine disease, not simply 'difficult thrush'.
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